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New music from Half-Portuguese, half-Irish Montrealist Sarah Linhares, off of her debut release “Messages From The Future EP” that’s out now on Public Transit Recordings.

As always, Sarah brings a steady dose of mellow vocals with nuff attitude, mixed up with Brukzilian beats, post-Dilla deepness and some Latin-fuelled funky madness courtesy Public Transit’s Moonstarr, as well as Sarah’s fellow Academy alumni Aklimatize and Camplaix. Watch out for the creative class – and a full-length dropping this autumn…(RBMA)

Sarah Linhares – No Question

“Church League Champions” is a project dedicated to anyone with dreams and aspirations. Pac Div uses the basketball theme – “Church League Champions” – as a metaphor for all the underdogs in life. The moral is never be afraid to do you, never be ashamed of starting from scratch. See your dream, persue your dream, don’t look back and you’ll become champions!

Nice to hear some new joints from Pac Div, but too bad they didn’t go all out and saved their best for their first official album. Can’t complain though…it’s FREE. Download the album on their website or HERE directly.

Pac Div – Whiplash

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This IAM1 Journey of Amsterdam, featuring Nalden as the storyteller, is a part of the Nike Europe project showcasing creative hotspots in 5 cities through the eyes of their native revolutionaries. This great stop-motion movie takes you to a few of Nalden’s favorite spots and people like Momkai, the MiNiBar, HOTEL and La Melodia. The wonderful soundtrack was made by Melodee and I.N.T. (La Melodia) and can be enjoyed as of now…

La Melodia – Sounds Of The City

Tomorrow Exile & DJ Day will be visiting Amsterdam for a day and we’ll have the guys in the studio. MOOVMNT is recording a radio show this friday at the Rooms of Red Bull. You can listen to the live stream between 18:00 and 20:00 hours (GMT+1) HERE and the entire show will be all about “Cali L.O.V.E.”! Tune into the show and in case you won’t be able to check it…don’t worry. We’ll be posting the mix somewhere next week.

If you want to see Exile & DJ Day perform live, go visit HeadQuaters at the Overtoom 141 in Amsterdam. More info about this event can be found after the jump…

Exile – Mega Mix

Get ready for the latest edition of HVW8 Super Sessions. Another live set at the Art + Design Gallery on the Melrose Strip in Los Angeles. The result is usually unexpected and always amazing.

Last Sunday, Mark de Clive-Lowe set up some keys and an MPC. Chris Bailey sat in on drums. Nia Andrews and Laurnea took turns on vocals. The result was yet another not-to-miss performance at HVW8.

No rehearsals. No set lists. All live. Super Session. DOWNLOAD the whole session HERE, or subscribe for the HVW8 podcast HERE. HVW8 all day!

MdCL, Chris Bailey, Nia Andrews & Laurnea – Untitled (Fugitive)

Marc Mac’s album In Between the Lines is now available on iTunes , produced by Marc Mac featuring Phonte of Little Brother/Foreign Exchange, T.R.A.C, Roshin of Notes to Self, Preach & Voice. For more info visit the Omniverse Records site.

Marc Mac – Take A Trip Feat. Phonte

Marc Mac – Radio Heroes Feat. T.R.A.C

Here’s a brand new track from Dam-Funk’s new EP, ‘LAtrik’, called ‘On & On’. Damian is currently putting the finishing touches on his debut album “Toeachizown” which will be released this Fall as a 5/LP set – two and a half hours of music – with CD version to follow. Toeachizown is a modern funk album, created in five distinct parts: LAtrik, Fly, Life, Hood, Sky. Stones Throw will be releasing a few of these volumes digitally prior to the vinyl & CD release in Fall. LAtrik is available now exclusively at http://stonesthrow.com.

Stay tuned for volumes: 2. 3, 4, & 5 and keep that L.A. boogie-funk in heavy rotation! Big ups Alex..

Dam Funk – Toeachizown

Dam Funk – On & On

A-FREE-KA: a Kemetic term, from ancient Egypt, meaning spirit. Being in A-free-Ka means no limitations. No boundaries. Infinite. As the myth-scientist Sun Ra said: The only limit is your imagination. In A-free-Ka, the mind and body is one. Harnessing the hidden vectors of space, transcending time, elevating the mind. S’aint even about music, but a journey towards love, truth, peace, freedom and justice.

Shafiq Husayn‘s first solo album “Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka” represents the culmination of a 30 year journey. He learnt to cut from Afrika Bambaattaa and Afrika Islam, cooled out in L.A. with Egyptian Lover, and did a stint with Ice-T’s Rhyme Syndicate. Today, he is part of the Sa-Ra triumvirate and the only person Erykah Badu allows to write for her. What he makes isn’t hip-hop, isn’t soul, isn’t rock, isn’t jazz. It’s a weke-up call. He carefully arranges his drums like hieroglyphs. Taking the hip-hop beat somewhere else, to a place it’s always been before – thru ancient rhyhthms of the Ethiops, Eastern modalities, dark matter freek1cies and the reverb/delay of our forefathers’ voices. The album is composed with an armoury of outboard gear, effects, synthesizers, electric guitars, strings, horns, a lot of modulation and a lot of weird stuff. “Hip-hop mastered the beat, but they didn’t do nothing with the changes,” says Shafiq. Check out “Lil Girl” featuring UK’s favorite queen – Fatima – and don’t forget to get “En’ A-Free-Ka” when it drops on Plug Research this October!

Shafiq Husayn – Lil Girl (Feat. Fatima)

 

Young instrumentalist, soundscaper and rhythm scientist – Mindesign aka mndsgn – had been on our list of promising beatmakers for a minute now. Part of the Klipmode fam (Devonwho, Suzi Analogue, knXwl3dG3 and Mindesign) and bound to make it big if you ask us. Perhaps more on Klipmode soon…Devon?

When we heard Recordbreakin was going to release his first solo release “Lights & Tunnels” we were very pleased. With melodious keys and layers of space and future MD is about to take you on this cosmic journey through space and time. To be released as a digital EP this year, we anxiously await the space invasion. Keep an eye out for more details on Recordbreakin..

Mindesign – Etcetera

Mindesign – Three Days Off

There is nothing better than gettin a goodie from one of your favorite artists in your mailbox..For all the people who didnt subscribe to the Foreign Exchange mailinglist, here is what they had to say..

This is the first in a series of random goodies that we will be periodically dropping off in your mailboxes. (Who loves ya, baby?)

We recorded this over a month ago specifically for a ?uestlove tribute party dedicated to The Purple One himself. Other than passing it off to a few DJ friends who vowed to keep it on some secret squirrel, “bet you aint up on THIS!” status, no one has ever heard it. In the wake of the incredible loss we suffered on June 25 however, this joint took on somewhat of a deeper meaning.

We decided to share it with our fans not only as a token of appreciation, but also as a way of paying respect to one of our last living musical geniuses.

Let’s not wait until tragedy strikes before we show love and gratitude to our heroes, people. Give them their flowers while they live.

This one’s for you, Mr. Nelson. You are loved and appreciated.

Enjoy!

One Love,
‘Tay and Nic

?uestlove/ Foreign Exchange/ ZO!/ Carlitta Durand – Purple Flip